PBS高端访谈:中国放宽二胎政策

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　　Jeffrey Brown explains.

　　JEFFREY BROWN: The announcement heralded² the biggest change in China's one-child policy in three decades. Millions more couples will be allowed to have two children, provided at least one parent was an only child.

　　The existing policy, enforced by mandatory³ abortions⁴ and sterilization⁵, was deeply unpopular. And so was the system of forced labor⁶ camps that Communist Party leaders announced they're abolishing. That system, established in 1957, allows police to imprison⁷ people for up to four years without formal arrest or trial.

　　The reforms came out of a four-day meeting of top communist officials, led by President Xi Jinping, who took office earlier this year. Xi consolidated⁸ his power at the gathering⁹ with the formation of a national security committee to oversee¹⁰ the party, government and military. The party meeting also agreed to let the private market play a more important role in the world's second-largest economy.

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